readme.txt

## 	Replication instructions

## 	Paper: Don’t Republicans Tweet Too? Using Twitter to Assess the Consequences of Political Endorsements by Celebrities

## 	Data: celebrity_perspectives_data.dta
	      top_words.csv	

## 	File: celebrity_analysis.do

	Purpose: Reproduce Tables 1, 2, 3, 4 in the paper

## 	File: celebrity_charts.R

	Purpose: Produce Figures 1, 2 and A1, A2 in the paper.

## 	NOTES

The variables provided by the authors are sufficient to reproduce the analysis.

However, in order to abide by Twitter’s Terms of Service, 
we do not publish the **text** of tweets.

For each row in the dataset, the tweet ID & and the handle of the account are provided:
therefore the text of tweets is traceable and downloadable by other researchers,
as long as celebrities have not deleted particular tweets.

The columns in the provided STATA-readable .dta file include:

- Tweet-ID
- Twitter handle of the tweet author
- author is (celebrity-who-endorsed trump) 
- author is (celebrity-who-endorsed clinton)
- author is (celebrity-who-endorsed sanders)
- tweet mentions “trump” (binary)
- tweet mentions “hilarry” (binary)
- tweet mentions "sanders" (binary)
- retweet count
- date when the given tweet was created